Faculty may attend the meeting as a guest- please refer to the email you receive from your school’s Faculty Senate Liaison, for Zoom link and information (also available on the agenda, posted on the Faculty Senate website, click on button labeled “Meeting Minutes & Agendas”). During the meeting, faculty have the opportunity to indicate their questions, input, faculty-advice, concerns, ideas, feedback, etc., by texting such, to your choice of 2 of the members of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee– their cell phone numbers will be posted in the chat box, at the (Zoom) meeting. You may also utilize the “raise your hand” Zoom feature to be recognized to speak, by the Senate Chair.

If you prefer a more private setting to raise your concern or suggestion, please contact the Chair of the Faculty Senate, Mike Sloane, at sloane@uab.edu.

Draft-Agenda:
(Items and Order Subject to Change)

• Chair’s Report – Mike Sloane
• Senate Committees Reports & Faculty/Senate Representatives on University-wide Committees Reports
  • Curriculum – Joe March
  • Research – Karen Cropsey
  • Faculty Development – Ken Gunnells
  • Finance – Mike Bertram
  • Governance and Operations – Emma O’Hagan
  • Faculty Policies and Procedures – Dan Givan
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Cmte – Doug Moellering
  • Graduate Curriculum Cmte – Daniel Smith
  • Senate-Representatives’ Reports to the FSEC – Mike Sloane; Ria Hearld; Senators-at-Large
• Presentation-Collaborations Sessions
  • Provost Benoit Fall Update and Collaboration Session – Provost Benoit
  • The UAB Libraries. Status and Vision – Katarzyna Gonnerman, new Dean of the UAB Libraries
  • UAB Childcare Center transition to KinderCare at Work - Stephen J. Murray (Office of Senior VP Finance & Administration
  • (Tentative) Update on the Alabama Teacher’s Retirement System – Joseph Van Matre
• New Business
  • Vote: Changes to the Senate Bylaws and Appendix B (Standing Rules), to include remote meetings and functions – Emma O’Hagan, Governance & Operations Cmte
• Old Business
  • Call for UAB Faculty Development Grant Program Applications – Chris Biga, Cathy Roche
• Open Forum & Suggestions of Items that Senate Committees Should Address
• Announcements

If you have any questions, you may contact the Chair of the Faculty Senate, Mike Sloane sloane@uab.edu, or, the Associate Chair of the Faculty Senate, Claudio Busettini cbus@uab.edu. Agenda items and order are subject to change.